Friedrich Gottsleben,
nach
New York.
Quelle: Smith,
Clifford Neal: Muster rolls and prisoner-of-war lists in American archival
collections pertaining to the German mercenary troops who served with the
British forces during the American revolution.
DeKalb, Ill.: Westland Publ., 1974-76, S. 147.
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1793/95

Carl Gottleben,
nach
Philadelphia. 1793 und 1795.
Quellen: Names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance to the province
and state of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the foreign arrivals, 1786-1808.
William Henry Egle (ed.). Repr. Baltimore: Genealogical Publ. Co., 1967. - Strassburger, Ralph Beaver: Pennsylvania German pioneers. A
publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia
from 1727 to 1808. Pennsylvania:
Pennsylvania German Society, 1934, Vol. 3, S. 79.
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Jacob
Gottsleben
(* 1841) aus Motzenrode/Eichsfeld. Jacob lives
1903 in Canada and is married to Elizabeth Gimbel, who has borne him five
children. Immigration: 1871 Canada.Quellen: Biographical memoirs
of Saint Clair County, Michigan. Logansport, Ind.: Bowen, 1903, S. 563-564.
- Waterloo region generations. A record of the people of Waterloo
region, Ontario.
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Julius Gottesleben
(* 1861), 26 Jahre, aus Preußen, Kellner/Kaufmann. In New
York eingereist am 9. August
1888 mit Schiff
»Hammonia« aus Hamburg/Le Havre und
ein zweites Mal am 17. September 1894mit Schiff
»Ems« aus Bremen.
Quelle: Schiffsliste (Ellis
Island immigration center).
Franz Gottesleben
(* um 1865), 23 Jahre, aus Russland (Heilczenstadt),
Arbeiter. In New York eingereist
am 9. August 1888 mit Schiff
»Hammonia« aus Hamburg/Le Havre.
Quellen: Schiffsliste (Ellis
Island immigration center). - United States Russians to America Index, 1834-1897 <Franz Gottesleben;
Immigration; Einreise am 09 Aug 1888 in New York; 23 Jahre; geb. um 1865
in Russland; Beruf: Laborer/Arbeiter; Schiffsname: Hammonia;
Abfahrtshafen: Hamburg & Le Havre; Wohnort: Heilczenstadt; Zielort: USA;
Staying in the USA [Transit]; Steerage [Zwischendeckpassagier]>.
»Germans from Russia were
the most traditional of German-speaking arrivals. They were Germans who had
lived for generations throughout the Russian Empire, but especially along
the Volga River in Russia, near the Crimea in the current Ukraine. Their
ancestors had come from all over the German-speaking world, invited by
Catherine the Great in 1762 and 1763 to settle and introduce more advanced
German agriculture methods to rural Russia. They had been promised by the
manifesto of their settlement the ability to practice their respective
Christian denominations, retain their culture and language, and retain
immunity from conscription for them and their descendants. As time passed,
the Russian monarchy gradually eroded the ethnic German population's
relative autonomy. Conscription eventually was reinstated; this was
especially harmful to the Mennonites, who practice pacifism. Throughout
the 19th century, pressure increased from the Russian government to
culturally assimilate. Many Germans from Russia found it necessary to
emigrate to avoid conscription and preserve their culture. About 100,000
immigrated by 1900, settling primarily in the Dakotas, Kansas and
Nebraska. The southern central part of North Dakota was known as 'the
German-Russian triangle'.«
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